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A Texas man is set to be executed for fatally stabbing twin teenage girls in 1989
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man linked to five killings and convicted of fatally stabbing twin 16-year-old girls more than three decades ago is facing execution on Tuesday evening. Garcia Glenn White was condemned for the December 1989 killings of Annette and Bernette Edwards. The...
The State Fair of Texas opens with a new gun ban after courts reject challenge
DALLAS (AP) — The State Fair of Texas opened Friday under a new firearms ban, having withstood weeks of pressure from Republicans who had charged into a public rift with one of the state's most beloved institutions and have spent years championing looser gun laws. Organizers put...
Judge denies effort to halt State Fair of Texas' gun ban
DALLAS (AP) — A judge on Thursday denied a effort by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to halt the recently announced ban on guns at the State Fair of Texas. Dallas County District Judge Emily Tobolowsky denied the state's request for a temporary injunction to stop the ban from...
Judge tosses Ken Paxton’s lawsuit targeting Texas county’s voter registration effort
A Texas district court judge on Monday denied a request by Attorney General Ken Paxton to block a Bexar County plan to mail voter registration forms to county residents ahead of the November election, saying the request was moot. Bexar County attorneys argued in a hearing before...
Texas leads push for faster certification of mental health professionals
Aspiring Texas psychologists hope to earn certification and start work faster under a new licensing examination that would be created by the state. The plan, which is catching the eye of other states, calls for Texas boards to conduct state certification tests, eliminating the need for more...
Trial begins over Texas 'Trump Train' highway confrontation
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — On a busy Texas highway days before the 2020 election, former Democratic lawmaker Wendy Davis used her phone to record the scene unfolding around their Biden-Harris campaign bus: A convoy of President Donald Trump supporters weaving close while her fellow passengers called...
Texas Republican attorney general sues over voter registration efforts in Democrat strongholds
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued two of the state's largest counties to block efforts to register voters ahead of the November general election, drawing claims of voter suppression from state Democrats. Paxton announced Friday a lawsuit to block...
New Mexico starts building an abortion clinic to serve neighboring states, train medical students
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Construction is getting underway on a state-funded reproductive health and abortion clinic in southern New Mexico that will cater to local residents and people who travel from neighboring states such as Texas and Oklahoma with major restrictions on abortion, Gov. Michelle...
Texas would need about $81.5 billion a year to end property taxes, officials say
Texas would have to spend tens of billions of dollars to get rid of the state’s property taxes, state budget officials said Wednesday — a reality check on some conservatives who want to end them once and for all. Republican lawmakers have been on a yearslong push to bring down...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Bexar County over voter registration outreach effort
Bexar County officials moved forward Tuesday with a plan to mail county residents voter registration forms, defying Attorney General Ken Paxton ’s threat to use “all available legal means” to quash the effort. Paxton followed through Wednesday morning, filing a lawsuit in a...
